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I got up early in the morning and prepared breakfast first, and then I ran to water the flowers in the garden.

The courtyard is shared by several families. I obtained the consent of the other two families to clear an open space in one corner and fill it with flowers grown in earthen pots.

They all come from the hometown of the old man. When I left, I brought seeds and some local soil. During the long journey on the cruise ship, the seeds germinated one after another, and the bumpy journey did not affect their growth.

Up to now, these short-growing plants seem to have adapted to the climate of Marine Verde, and they are growing vigorously. Some of the branches have small flower buds, and they will bloom soon.

After watering the pots with an iron pot, I bent down to observe these plants carefully.

The air in Marineford in the early morning is very good, because it is close to the ocean, there is a little bit of humidity in the wind, before the sun comes out, the soft sky reflects the fluffy plants in the pots, and the leaf buds are climbing and inserting confidently / the branches in the center of the pot Occasionally, a few plants get close to the branches and tendrils, which looks crowded and lively.

It's just... Most of them have no color, no, or they are like the moonlight in the cool night of the water, and the branches and tendrils are swaying when the morning breeze blows, and they are as thin and weak as silk.

Hearing the steady footsteps from far to near behind me, I withdrew my hand to check the blades, stood up, patted the dust, turned my head slightly, and smiled at the people walking by, "Good day, sir."

Coming in from the outside of the courtyard, it was the slightly younger man from yesterday who visited someone else's house early in the morning. Compared with the casualness of last night, this morning he was dressed in a suit and leather shoes, a snow-white cape, and a wide-brimmed top hat, formal and rigorous.

In addition, he was followed by two young men, wearing shirts and long trousers, in standard navy soldier attire.

"Good day, Miss Chitose." The other party returned a gentle smile, looked around while speaking, and then showed a few traces of awkwardness, paused and said, "I am Ados, Lieutenant General Garp's adjutant."

Seeing that he hesitated to speak, I thought for a while and told him, "Mr. Karp slept in the guest room last night, and now it's almost..." Should I wake up?or not yet?

That Mr. Karp and the old man were really too excited last night, and they refused to rest in the middle of the night. I was sleepy and couldn't wait to go to bed by myself.

And speaking of this...

I looked Mr. Athos up and down, and as I expected, I saw a bag in his hand.

……

Noticing my gaze, Mr. Adjutant smiled, and said in an awkward (==) tone, "It's Mr. Karp's coat. I was rude yesterday."

After he finished speaking, he turned around, recruited one of the two young sailors who were waiting a few meters away, handed over the items in his hand, and whispered a few words, the soldier took the order and left, and then he turned his face again .

"There is a meeting this morning, it's really rude." He raised his hand and pressed the brim of his hat as he said.

I probably know why this gentleman’s repeated words are not conveying the meaning. Yesterday, Mr. Karp was a guest at someone’s house in a little yellow chicken shirt and beach pants. You must also bring clothes.

When encountering such enthusiastic and unrestrained bosses, it is understandable that Mr. Adjutant can speak inappropriately. Well~ I looked away in silence for a few seconds, and I twitched the corners of my mouth, "Mr. Ados is too polite. , Mr. Karp is a friend of my father's."

After I finished speaking, I shut my mouth, and then I didn't know how to continue.

I hate trouble, and I hate interpersonal relationships even more. I was dead when I didn't become a "glorious time traveler" a long time ago, and now I wear it again and again, and I still can't help but want to die.

It's a pity that I can't be locked up at home to grow mold. Although that is my highest ideal, in order to let the old man live a long life, the ideal of squatting at home must be discussed again.

But... I still don't know how to get close to people out of thin air, it's really difficult to get acquainted with others, hey!

……

The scene fell silent like this.

After a long while, Adjutant Ados seemed to have found a topic. He took a few steps forward, leaned over to look at the potted plants, and said, "These belong to Miss Chitose?"

After looking carefully for a long time, the adjutant straightened up, with some surprise on his face, "The whole plant is white, it seems..."

"Yes." Seeing this, I followed him and stood next to him, squatted down, stroked the branches and leaves of a nearby plant with my hand, and whispered, "They come from my father's hometown."

"I remember, Durand. Mr. Scott was born in Frevans in the North Sea, right?" Although he used a questioning tone at the end, his tone was enlightened, "The country called [White Town]."

"You have a really good memory." I lowered my eyes and nodded slowly, "These plants are a specialty of Baizhen. Mr. Ados must also know that the land plants there are all white and flawless."

And the cause of this strange landscape, which astonished me, was the lead deposits beneath the Frevans.

Withdrawing the hand attached to the blade, I got up, nodded to the black-haired man walking quickly behind, "Mr. Karp."

After changing out the Hawaiian beach-style attire last night, Mr. Karp, who was wearing a navy blue suit and a standard cloak, looked very heroic, and he arrived before anyone came. "From upstairs, these things are not all white~"

For some reason, Mr. Karp, who was able to listen to the conversation between me and Mr. Adjutant just now, tapped on these potted plants in a corner of the courtyard, "Except for the first two rows, the colors in the back are getting darker. Is it because my eyes are not good-looking? "

I twitched the corners of my mouth cryptically, expressing that I didn't know what to say to the black-haired man's inexplicable question.

After thinking about it for a few seconds, I raised my gaze to the straight-faced black-haired man and said, "Because the soil in my hometown is not enough, the growth period of the seeds I brought is very short, and it only takes two months from germination to flowering and seeding."

"Except for the first two rows, I mixed the soil for other potted plants into the soil of other islands along the way. Frevans set off to Marineford. The journey took several months, and they have been separated by several generations."

"Because of the quality of the soil, they returned to what they should have been."

……

These plants are similar to the morning glory in my original life world, also known as 'Asahi'. This world is also widely distributed, but only in Frevans, they will grow so white like new snow.

On the way from the old man's hometown to Marineford by boat, I deliberately changed the proportion of soil during the process of cultivating seeds, and reproduced it from generation to generation. Up to now, the plants grown with different proportions have indeed changed.

Except for those that were completely fed by the soil of Baizhen, other plant descendants continued to produce chlorophyll.

Such a result...

"I don't know if Mr. Garp has heard of..."

When the other party's eyes moved over from the potted plant, I smiled pretendingly and unintentionally, and continued, "There is a very delicious sweet orange in Nanhai, which is full of fruity fragrance, juicy and delicious, but unfortunately that kind of plant only It grows on certain islands, and once transplanted, the fruit will be very sour."

The so-called 'Huainan orange Huaibei trifoliate', the all-white plant grown by Frevans, the land will gradually recover after leaving the white town, and the people there...want to come...

"Sometimes human health will also change due to the environment." I added meaningfully.

I'm not a scientist, I can't make an authoritative judgment, and I can't say anything exactly. I can only remind you vaguely. As for...whether it has any effect, or whether the high-level navy will notice it, it has nothing to do with me.

That's a whole country, what can I do by myself?If it wasn't for the sudden collapse of the old man's body, I panicked and tried my best to investigate, but I couldn't imagine the reason being so terrible.

In the past year, I have read all the inspection reports of the old man, including arriving in Marineford two months ago, and applying for access to all the medical files during his employment in the name of the old man. He was still healthy until he retired ten years ago. His early military career The old wounds left behind are not counted, but the internal organs will never have pathological changes.

In less than ten years, the internal organs of people with good physique collapsed rapidly. Apart from poisoning, I can't think of other reasons.

I lived in Frevans for three years, and the old man and I depended on each other for life. Since it is impossible to have a problem with diet, the root cause is naturally the environment, not to mention the strange landform of Baizhen.

All I can do is try my best to persuade the old man to leave, as for the rest of the land.

After all, it is hard to leave the homeland, and so far, there is no crisis in Baizhen.

The 'white gold' brought to Flevans's prosperity by the lead mine in Perth, the evil results buried in it, how many years will it take for it to explode?

……

Mr. Garp's expression was very blank, he stared at me for a long time, he suddenly raised his hand and waved it back, and then, Adjutant Athos walked away quietly after receiving the signal.

When Mr. Adjutant and the young sailor stood some distance away, Mr. Garp looked up and down with strange eyes again, and said, "I don't understand half of the ten sentences you say, girl."

"Last night, I heard that you could lift a table by raising your hand. I thought you were a straightforward child, but I didn't expect your thinking to be as twisted as those civil servants in the staff department."

After sizing up his eyes, he raised his hand and began to touch his chin with a complicated expression.

I was embarrassed and embarrassed again, the corner of my mouth twitched fiercely, and I was speechless for a while, "I don't understand half of it" and "a civil servant of the staff department", this is making fun of me, right?

"Forget it~" Mr. Garp waved his hand away from touching the stubble on his chin, and bared his big white teeth boldly, "Follow me to the Navy headquarters later."

"Huh?" I was confused by this god's development, and I went to the Navy headquarters, why?

"Durand asked you to join the navy~" Mr. Karp explained his doubts very kindly, he paused for a few seconds, and the smile on the corner of his mouth deepened a bit, "Didn't you say that you want more money and less treatment?"

Does that have anything to do with joining the Navy?My face shuddered, and I couldn't help but retort, "Everyone knows that the navy is the nanny of the whole people, right?" It controls the world, from criminal crimes like pirates, all the way to family disputes such as husband and wife fighting.

More money, less work, good treatment, a P!

"Don't lie to me just because I don't read much!"

Besides, "Isn't March every year for conscription?" It's already halfway through September now dear!Waiting for next year?I squinted and despised it.

"You know it very well~" I don't know if he didn't understand or pretended not to understand, Mr. Garp smiled indifferently, "Don't worry~ the end of March conscription doesn't mean you can't join the army~"

"Adding someone to this military academy, I still have this relationship, you know..." He squeezed out a funny expression, "I owe Durand a favor, I won't pay it back this time, in case he dies one day haha Haha~"

……

I took a few deep breaths before suppressing the urge to beat him up violently. I stared at him for a while, then raised my hand to rub my forehead.

Last night when I saw this guy, I was short-sighted. Now after talking with him, I realized that he simply went out without a brain. How much hatred he said in front of his family members!

After pinching my forehead for a long while, I let go, let out a deep breath, and directly attacked... The lack of strength is debatable. In addition, there is a slight bitterness in this person's smile, which doesn't seem to be...

Maybe it's just that they can't speak~ The old man has always been very outspoken. It must be that they, who are from the army, have a lower view of life and death than ordinary people.

After a long time, Mr. Garp in front of him put away the deliberate lightness in his smile, a few traces of gloom flashed between his brows, and he said in a hoarse voice, "Durand's situation...is it bad?"

"Well——" I turned my face to the other side, blinking away the heat that was almost overflowing from the corners of my eyes, "Without interrupting the treatment, the best case is that there is still one year left."

From the day I found out, I forced the old man to go to the hospital with the best reputation. I went to many doctors with excellent medical skills, but the results were similar. Later, I had no choice but to come to Marineford.

The old man used to be a soldier, and he also enjoys military medical insurance after retirement. The old man himself is unwilling, but I will not let him persist.

"Join the navy girl, Durand is worried about you." Mr. Karp seemed to have something else in his words.

When I recovered, I shook my head and said in a low voice, "I need a lot of money." After hesitating for a moment, I raised my gaze and looked straight into the other person's eyes, so that he could clearly see my determination at the moment, "There is also information about the fruits of the operation. .”

If I earn a lot of money, I can hire the best doctors in the world. If the top doctors in the world are helpless, then I can only hope... the fruit of the surgery in my impression.

"Devil Fruit, how do you know..." He was stunned for a few seconds, his eyes changed slightly, his expression was vainly cold, "Are you a person with abilities?"

Pursing the corners of my lips, I replied in a deep voice, "Because I am not."

It is precisely because I am not a devil fruit capable user that I desperately want to find the fruit of the operation. Even if there is no fruit, it is good to find the whereabouts of the person who holds it now. No matter what the price is, I will make the other party agree to save the old man.

Because if he's gone... I'll really be an orphan~

After a long silence, Mr. Karp finally broke the silence.

"Even the navy hasn't heard of the fruit of the operation for several years, the last time it appeared..."

Speaking of this, he suddenly stopped, with a complicated look on his face, and then changed his words again, "The salary of ordinary soldiers is indeed not high, which is a problem, but you still don't know enough, girl~"

What's the meaning?I raised one eyebrow and waited quietly.

"In addition to the fruits of surgery, there are many precious medicines that can save lives~" Mr. Garp clicked his tongue twice before continuing, "Joining the navy will give you the opportunity to get access to those resource information~"

I really don't know much, and I don't have the chance to know more. Even if I didn't fall into this world through the wrong channel halfway, even a native civilian would have no chance to learn these secrets, right?

Joining the Navy is something you can look up from the inside, and he makes sense, except…

"Girl, your eyes are really weird~" Mr. Garp raised his hand and touched the back of his neck as if he was stared at a little uncomfortable, "Do you doubt me? What a suspicious girl."

"I just think you're too eager." The corner of my mouth twitched, and I decided to put the ugly words first, "I am self-aware of my own situation, and people like me really don't see any value that makes Mr. Karp love you so much. "

Although you and my old man are good friends for a lifetime, but... just care about your friends, what do you care about other people's daughters?This already belongs to the category of being courteous, okay?How can I not care too much.

Mr. Karp paused, "I've said it all, and I'm returning Durand's favor."

"How much kindness?" I asked, how much kindness made the admiral insist on crying and asking for someone to join the army?Don't say that you can tell that I am a genius at a glance!

Don't I know how many catties I have?Anyway, I don't believe in favors.

As if being asked, Mr. Karp twitched the corner of his mouth like a toothache after a long time, "Thank you for saving my life."

His tone was vaguely unwilling. After a pause, he snorted again, and said, "You are indeed suitable for the staff department. Everyone likes to consider the worst result first."

Then Mr. Karp looked around, rolled up his sleeves, and changed his face miraculously, "Are you going or not?"

"The medical department has arranged for Durand's treatment process, and he will be admitted to the hospital today. He is worried about leaving you a dead girl. You want the old man to tie you to the Naval Academy?"

While speaking, he clenched his fist and brought it to his mouth to breathe, with a domineering look that he would strike directly no matter how wordy he was.

……

"Then I will ask Mr. Karp to take care of you from now on~" I smiled softly.

The other party's expression stopped, "Huh?!"

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